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<h3>BACKPACK PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT</h3>

<p>We collect the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via
e-mail, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit,
and information volunteered by the consumer (such as survey information
and/or site registrations). The information we collect is used to
improve the content of our Web pages and the quality of our service,
and is not shared with or sold to other organizations for commercial
purposes, except to provide products or services you've requested, when
we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:<br>

</p><ul>
	<li>It is necessary to share information in order to
investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities,
suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical
safety of any person, violations of <a href="/terms.html">Terms of Service</a>, or as otherwise required by law.</li>
	<li>We
transfer information about you if 37signals or Backpack is acquired by
or merged with another company. In this event, 37signals will notify
you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to
a different privacy policy.</li>
</ul>
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<p>INFORMATION GATHERING AND USAGE<br>
</p><ul>
	<li>When you register for Backpack we ask for information
such as your name, email address, billing address, credit card
information. <strong>Members who sign up for the free account are not required to enter a credit card.</strong></li>
	<li>37signals
uses collected information for the following general purposes: products
and services provision, billing, identification and authentication,
services improvement, contact, and research.</li>
</ul>
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<p>COOKIES<br>
</p><ul>
	<li>A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes
an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a web
site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive.</li>
	<li>Cookies are required to use the Backpack service.</li>
	<li>We
use cookies to record current session information, but do not use
permanent cookies. You are required to log-in to your Backpack Project
Site after a certain period of time has elapsed to protect you against
others accidentally accessing your account contents.</li>
</ul>
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<p>CLIENT DATA STORAGE<br>
Although 37signals owns the data storage, databases and all rights to
the Backpack application, you retain all rights to your data. We will
never sell or share your client data with any third-parties (unless, of
course, the product or our company is sold), or use your data for our
own business advantage. We respect the privacy of our subscribers, and
the privacy of their client data.
</p>

<p>INFORMATION RIGHTS AND PUBLICITY<br>Unless you notify 37signals
otherwise in writing, You hereby grant to 37signals and its wholly
owned subsidiaries a limited license to use Your trade names,
trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names and other distinctive
brand features ("Brand Features") in presentations, marketing
materials, web sites, customer lists, and financial reports.</p>

<p>DISCLOSURE<br>
</p><ul>
	<li>37signals may disclose personally identifiable
information under special circumstances, such as to comply with
subpoenas or when your actions violate the <a href="/terms.html">Terms of Service</a>.</li>
</ul>
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<p>CHANGES<br>
37signals may periodically update this policy. We will notify you about
significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending
a notice to the primary email address specified in your Backpack
primary account holder account or by placing a prominent notice on our
site.
</p>

<p>QUESTIONS<br>Any questions about this Privacy Policy should be
addressed to support at 37signals.com or by mail at: 37signals, 400
North May Street #301, Chicago, IL 60622 USA
</p>

Copyright 2003-2005 37signals LLC. All rights reserved.<br>
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